If Science is to Save Us

Martin Rees (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2026
Polity Press (Verlag)
9781509572298 (ISBN)

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There has never been a time when ‘following the science’ has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor had such astonishing capacity to determine the future of our planet.

But the decisions we must make on how science is applied belong outside the lab and should be the outcome of wide public debate. For that to happen, science needs to become part of our common culture. Science is not just for scientists: if it were, it could never save us from the multiple crises we face. For science can save us, if its innovations mesh carefully into society and its applications are channelled for the common good.

As Martin Rees argues in this expert and personal analysis of the scientific endeavour on which we all depend, we need to think globally, we need to think rationally and we need to think long-term, empowered by twenty-first-century technology but guided by values that science alone cannot provide.

Also available as an audiobook.

Martin Rees is Astronomer Royal, former President of the Royal Society, Fellow (and former Master) of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He sits as a member of the UK House of Lords.

Preface Introduction 1 Global Mega-challenges 2 Meet the Scientists 3 Science Comes out of the Lab 4 Getting the Best from Science Afterword Preface Introduction 1 Global Mega-challenges 2 Meet the Scientists 3 Science Comes out of the Lab 4 Getting the Best from Science Afterword

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.1.2026
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9781509572298 / 9781509572298
Zustand	Neuware